I was quite surprised at the goodie bag of "treats" just for entering! Besides what is mentioned above, I got some great discounts for Osprey books and a full copy of Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad in my welcome email. What a great way to encourage people to try the game and have some fun!

gonna look at joining The Wargamer tomorrow to enter into the tourney. Sounds like fun even if I might be a horrible player.

mo reb

_____________________________

**Those who rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul **A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have-Gerald Ford

I'm in. Need to brush up on some tactics for The Gap. Lost the last few playing that one.

mo reb

_____________________________

**Those who rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul **A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have-Gerald Ford

The Germans. 1 loss because of bad dice rolls imo and the others to superior tactics. I did win that scenario twice as the Germans although in 1 game it came down to my last AP and CAP to secure the victory hex. It all depends how the LMG's fare.

Well, things didn't go so good for me in the tourney and I was out-played in both games. Good job Eric Rutins and Hugi and good luck in the next round.

mo reb

_____________________________

**Those who rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul **A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have-Gerald Ford

I'm really enjoying the tournament so far. My first match as the Russians I won but I felt entirely outplayed the first turns. With judicious use of cards and a little bit of luck was able to turn it around. In the second game when I was axis, my opponent insta-killed two of my units with his first two shots! Thankfully, I think half of his units were questionably placed and he failed to appreciate the power of group fire with 4 LMGs so I was able to knock out half his units in the first two rounds which put him on his back foot with which he never was truly able to recover from. Both games were very different than any game I had ever played against the AI so it was fun!

IIRC :... only the units left and right of the 'fire leader' of a group adding +1 bonus ...and all three have to have LOS so i thought that 3 units is the max, even so there may be more in the group

(...but if contiguous means that all the units that are direct-connected to the fire leaders hex ... a group of 7, providing a +6 Bonus in an open field environment (LOS) could be possible? ... will test that.

btw: i am having a blast participating in the International (one honorable opponent +6h ours, the other -6hours, so far) Tournament. against a human its so much different then against the AI

I wonder if a "tournament" mode would make sense for the future, where each side gets the same set of pre-determined cards through the scenarios. I think once you get to that point though, you also need to remove the variable quality and use scenarios that are internally mirrored as far as forces and terrain. It would minimize luck, but might be a bit less interesting. I think the solution Curtis came up with of playing it once from each side is a reasonable one overall given that there are a lot of variables at work.

IIRC :... only the units left and right of the 'fire leader' of a group adding +1 bonus ...and all three have to have LOS so i thought that 3 units is the max, even so there may be more in the group

(...but if contiguous means that all the units that are direct-connected to the fire leaders hex ... a group of 7, providing a +6 Bonus in an open field environment (LOS) could be possible? ... will test that.

btw: i am having a blast participating in the International (one honorable opponent +6h ours, the other -6hours, so far) Tournament. against a human its so much different then against the AI

You're right Mike. You have to think in more than one dimension. Without stacking, you could feasibly group 7 units (one in the middle, six adjacent). With stacking of course it could be much higher. The trick of course is to make sure you select the middle unit as the firing leader.